How do you guys Test your SOAP Services? Do you use Tools like soapUI or do you write Unit Tests?
Just wanted to hear some opinions, what you prefer, what the advantages or disadvantages of both approaches are? And if someone writes Unit Tests, can you give me an example how to write those???

Edit: I developed a lot of REST Services, which I ususally tested using JUnit and a REST Client Framework. So when the REST Service was deployed, i was able to invoke those services with as a JUnit Test using a http connection. Is there something similiar in SOAP too? Does anyone have an example code for a SOAP Client?

I use both Junit for functional low-level testing of my functions and back end code. And I use SOAPUI to test the Web Service. Also keep in mind that you can run SOAPUI tests from within unit tests as desribed here. example:

If you like to test services you can use SOAPUI tool which is easy. But if you like to test service's functions are wroking right or not, you need to right unitest. That means if you are the author of the webservice, you might need to write unittests to check the functionalities.